different between millions vs trillion

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?lj?nz/
• Hyphenation: mil?lions

Noun

millions

1. plural of million
   • 1815?: Captain Dugald Carmichael, F.L.s., the Rev. Colin Smith (editor), Biographical Notice of the late Captain Dugald Carmichael, F.L.s., volume 2, >page 343; quoted in:
   • 1883: William Jackson Hooker (editor), Botanical miscellany […] , page 40

     “ […] The Hindoo bears a superstitious veneration for every thing possessed of life : the Briton venerates nothing, but sacrifices all, without distinction, to his appetite or his amusement. The former worships 333 millions of gods, male or female, some with two arms, some with two hundred; the latter, so far as can be gathered from his actions, worships neither god nor goddess. […] ”

French

Noun

millions m

1. plural of million

Swedish

Noun

millions

1. indefinite genitive singular of million; obsolete spelling of miljons

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?l'y?n, IPA^(key): /?t??lj?n/
• Rhymes: -?lj?n

Etymology 1

From French trillion, from tri- (“three”) +? -illion.

Numeral

trillion (plural trillions)

1. (US, modern Britain, Australia, short scale) A million million: 1 followed by twelve zeros, 10¹².
2. (dated Britain, Australia, long scale) A million million million: 1 followed by eighteen zeros, 10¹⁸.

Synonyms

• (10¹²): a long scale billion
• (10¹⁸): a short scale quintillion

Translations

See also

• (short scale) Previous: billion. Next: quadrillion
• (long scale) Previous: billiard. Next: trilliard
• (SI prefix): tera-

Etymology 2

Coined by Harvey Pollack, because of the way the numbers read across a basketball box score

Noun

trillion (plural trillions)

1. (basketball, slang) A statistic formed by a player playing some number of minutes, but recording no stats.

French

Etymology

From tri- (“three”) +? -illion, from million; i.e. a million million million.

Coined by Jehan Adam in 1475 as trimillion.Rendered as tryllion by Nicolas Chuquet in 1484, in his article “Triparty en la science des nombres”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i.lj??/

Numeral

trillion

1. 10¹⁸; a long scale trillion; a short scale quintillion.

Usage notes

• Previous: billiard, 10¹⁵
• Next: trilliard, 10²¹

Related terms

• billion, coined at same time

Descendants

• ? Catalan: trilió

Further reading

• “trillion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

trillion m (plural trillions)

1. trillion, 10¹⁸
   • 1520, Étienne de La Roche, L'arismethique novellement composee, page 6

     ung trillion vault mille milliers de billions

     a trillion is equivalent to a thousand thousands of billions

Tatar

Numeral

trillion (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. trillion (10¹²)

Declension